The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy

408 THE NORDIC COUNTRIES AND THE ESDPEric Stern) and Protecting the Homeland: European Approaches to SocietalSecurity and their Implications for the United States (Johns Hopkins University,Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006, edited with Daniel Hamiltonand Jesper Grönvall).Baldur Thorhallsson (Iceland) is an associate professor of political scienceand chair of the Institute of International Affairs and the Centre for Small-StateStudies at the University of Iceland. His research interests include small states,European integration, Nordic–EU relations, Icelandic politics, Iceland’s securitypolicy and Iceland–USA relations. He has published a number of articlesand books, including Iceland and European Integration: On the Edge (Routledge,2004); The Role of Small States in the European Union (Ashgate, 2000);‘Europeanization of central government administration in the Nordic states’,Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 42 (2004, with Per Lægreid andRunólfi Smára Steinórssyni); ‘The fishmeal crisis’, eds Ásthildur ElvaBernharsdóttir and Lina Svedin, ‘Small-State Crisis Management: The IcelandicWay (Swedish National Defence College, CRISMART, 2004, with ElvuEllertsdóttur); ‘What features determine international activities of small states?The international approaches of Iceland until the mid 1990s’, Fræiveftímaritium stjórnmál og stjórnsslu, vol. 1 (2005); and ‘The size of states in the EuropeanUnion: theoretical and conceptual perspectives’, Journal of EuropeanIntegration (forthcoming 2006).Teija Tiilikainen (Finland) has been the Director of the Network for EuropeanStudies, University of Helsinki, since 2003. Previously, she was Director ofresearch of the Centre for European Studies and acting professor in internationalrelations at the University of Helsinki, and researcher at the FinnishNational Defence College. She was the special representative of the FinnishPrime Minister in the European Convention. She was editor-in-chief of Politiikkain 1995–96 and has been a columnist in several Finnish newspapers. Shehas published more than 80 scientific articles and several monographs, includingEurope and Finland: Defining the National Identity of Finland in WesternEurope (Ashgate, 1998); and Finland in the European Union (Frank Cass,2003, with Tapio Raunio).Elzbieta Tromer (Denmark) is currently reading for a PhD on obtaining securitypolitical means through the investment of political instruments. In 2003–2005 she was head of the Baltic Institute for Security and Defence Studies anddean of the Baltic Defence College. Previously, she worked for major telecomcompanies in Denmark and Poland having worked for the Danish InvestmentFund for Central and Eastern Europe and as a consultant to the Polish Ministryof Privatization. She was a member of the Danish Government’s Commissionon Security and Disarmament from 1990 to its closure. She has published booksand articles on security political issues and on economic reforms in Central andEastern Europe, as well as on issues related to management practices. Among